Jakesak, why would you need to polish the inside of the ram, if the rod only slides on the o-ring that is inside the ram? It seems like you would only need to polish the rod. Just a thought, not a complaint
Thanks,
Edwin

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Originally posted by jakesak Polishing the ram:
First take out the ram. (if you dont know, post so we can tell you). Clean it off, see if you can take off the hammer connected to the rod. If so take it off and take off the treaded end on the ram. Next the rod will fall out or you will need to take it out. Clean off every thing. Take polish and make it shine. NOTE: if you have a dremal, this should be easy, put a attachment on and polish everything, it might get messy so do it in a can or box of sort. For polishing the inside of the ram, take a qtip and attach it on the dremal and go at it. Now you can polish the inside of the body if you want. What I did was take a large shochacbob(wooden stick about 1 foot long) and put a cloth at the end and polish the inside. Make sure you get all the stuff out before puting the ram back in. NOw that you have it nice slice and shiny, put RED (thanks Blue ) loctite on the rod that connects to the hammer, put the hammer on. NOTE: make sure the rod is INSIDE THE RAM when loctiting it. let it dry. Put lube on it and put it back in. It should be a nice and smooth action.

Sweet spotting is when you find the optiomum output pressure of the reg. Turn your reg down some, chrono, turn it up, dry fire it some, chrono, turn it up, dry fire, ........ once you peak (aka you turn it up and the velocity drops) turn it back where it was at before and slowly turn the pressure up until it peaks again. Thus you will find the best place for the reg. Most people will do this for cockers, as you can change the spring pressure from the rear of the gun.

It was to prevent roll back. Since most all Tribals came with an open face bolt, it allowed the ball to roll back into the bolt and cause another ball to almost come halfway into the breech. With the 2 ball detents arranged like that, it kept the ball from rolling back into the bolt and kept it centered under the feedtube better.